I'm experiencing a rather odd problem, and I can't figure out what's going on. I have a tgz file, scip-3.2.0.tgz, that is throwing an error when I attempt to unpack it. The error is only occurring on ...

My MBR crashes quite often. Normally I've multiple terminal windows and usually they're restored after crash.
However from some to time they're not restored, so for that reason I was doing the backup ...

So, recently I have being using the Character and Keyboard Viewer a fair bit and set up simple Alfred keywords that toggle the launch/quitting of these apps so as not to have to leave the keyboard.
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Is there a difference between the command line tools that come with xcode and the ones installed with xcode-select? If I install xcode and then run xcode-select --install will the ones installed with ...

And they've since disappeared; I'm unable to open them in Sublime Text Editor or edit them in the command line. They're not listed anywhere, even though the initial move was noted successfully.
I've ...

So by default .bash_history stores 500 last used commands. I changed that to 5000 by setting HISTFILESIZE=5000 in .bash_profile It seems to work.
Now when I do history it still prints 500 commands, ...

/var/cache is missing, ~/Library/Caches seems to be for full-fledged applications rather than command line tools, tools I've seen in the wild do horrible things (like use the user's home directory). ...

From the command line, I would like to compress some database dumps using the LZMA algorithm. And, OSX adds XZ support (written in October of last year), claims
" It turns out the XZ support in OS X ...

In our jenkins build automation environment we have several OSX nodes, now all updated to Yosemite, where we run ios simulator tests.
The problem is that on any newly introduced node simulator tests ...

I do have just one corrupted photo into my Photos Library.
Is there is any UNIX command line that I can use in terminal in order to scan my Photos Library Folder and find out which file is corrupted?
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I have issues with my Terminal, after every command I try to run, it returns something like "command not found" or "No such file or directory exists"
I think I caused it when I tried to run MineCraft ...

If so, where? If not, where does it downloads it for the time of installation?
I interrupted a package installation (brew install) and then restarted it. Do I have two tar.gz archives now? I thought, ...

I have a series of scripts I use for repartitioning hard drives before a DeployStudio reimage. They're really simple:
#!/bin/sh
diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk0 GPT JHFS+ Mac\ OS\ 10.10 100g JHFS+ ...

This might be answered already but I could not figure out a good way to phrase it to look for an answer so I hope you'll bear with me.
I want to change the color of the text output on Terminal if it ...

I have been searching for a terminal command line to disconnect or connect 802.1x authentication, but not the network interface. I was searching some help pages and it showed command lines to export ...

I recently request help about modifying firewall settings via command-line (see my previous question).
Everything is working, but I have noticed that whenever I use this command in an applescript, the ...

I am trying to Launch a process using NICE but this process is starting other process by itself and they are not affected by the priority of the main process ( main process has the correct nice but ...

I appreciate the "open" terminal command to launch OS X apps. When invoking the open command for any purpose, it is overwhelmingly likely that I will have at least one other command I would like to ...